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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1919
Page
2
Paris July 10 Associated Press reports Sub-Lieutenant Navarre, one of France's first aces, famed for his wartime exploits and later eccentricities, died this afternoon after a crash near Versailles. He succumbed in a military hospital shortly after.
Lieutenant Navarre nearly landed at Villacoublay but crashed while avoiding a collision. Sub-Lieutenant Jean Navarre was credited with twelve enemy planes by French authorities, with earlier reports varying. After retirement in April 1917 he faced a Paris police case, then moved toward aviation instruction in the United States.
William Lorenzo T. Davis aged 81, a retired York County peddler and Civil War veteran, marries his 56 year old Carmel housekeeper Dora A. Weymouth Davis in Saco Maine. Ceremony conducted by Rev. Lester C. Holmes with brother Alan Davis as best man and Mrs. Alexander Rankeiller as bridesmaid. The couple, admired in Saco and Biddeford, celebrated with a reception and many gifts after a lengthy courtship following her nursing him through pneumonia.
In Rutland Vermont on July 10 Governor Clement was asked by George E. Warner's counsel J C Jones to commute Warner's sentence to electrocution in Windsor jail this week for murder. If carried out Warner would be the first to die by electric chair in the state since 1914 changes to execution methods.
Disgruntled riders vented at higher fares on the Boston Elevated as a two cent jump to ten cents raised burdens for commuters and sparked protests. Citizens groups plan a mass meeting in East Boston to demand zone fare reform, better cars, transfers, and service while inspectors switch to Ford cars to cut costs.
William A English and an O'Brien wealthy wool men of Conyress street will begin an 18 month prison sentence on July 31 for conspiracy to defraud the United States of income taxes. They faced government civil suits for more than 2 million dollars and were ordered to pay fines of 10000 dollars each.
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